Etymologies

Examples

By the way, the apparent 'time discrepancy' (i.e., 6th November coincides with 1 Ramadhan, not 2 ramadhan) is due to the fact that the Islamic day starts after Maghrib (evening prayers), and I would like to coincide these posts with that time in Malaysia, and anyway it's better to be prepared in advance (Says the procrastinator extraordinaire * grin*).

In Chaman Nahal's Azadi (1979) Chaudhri Barkat Ali is intensely conscious of Islam: "He and his wife said namaaz, their prayer five times a day … visited the mosque nearby, gave alms to the poor and observed fasts through the entire month of ramadhan" (102).